Now Slim Goodbody, I totally remember.
Human memory is weird.
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Pauly Shore is older than I thought…
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Just what were the Cohn Brothers thinking?
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Does it explain where the very different hair style came from? Even as a kid, I thought that was some crazy hair!
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Don’t forget Sally Starr.
I remember the show was sponsored by one of the big cereal companies, and they had an intermittently working Rube Goldberg machine that prepared a bowl of cereal for eating: pour out cereal, add milk, add sugar, drop in spoon. Usually it was just a set piece because the machine was broken; it was a big event the one or two times I actually saw it function as intended.
Don’t forget Bunny Rabbit and his carrot kleptomania. Also remember the books he read, the same 3 or 4 all the time, but they were good ones.
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And I would always listen for my name and have this pregnant sense that ONE day, any day, she would say it… and she never did. 
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Thanks for the memories…
Damn, I got old.
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So, in this episode, we’re watching (on TV) a dog who is watching TV.
This show was so meta even before being meta was a thing.
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Captain Kangaroo was mildy humorous, and I could see the age difference between my younger brother who watched it, and me & my older brother, who preferred WALLACE AND LADMO, a legendary local Phoenix AZ production that was very Ernie Kovacs-ian, with a side of MAD Magazine, and the best kid’s show ever broadcast…Famous people were on it daily, it showed Roger Ramjet cartoons, and even had its own rock and roll vibe.
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Oh, and that Spielberg kid would show his home-made films on occasion…
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Slim Goodbody is the only part of Captain Kangaroo that I remember and I was thrilled to get to see him perform live at a local museum. Even more amazing is that he’s still performing. A friend of mine took her kids to see him which should have made me feel old but actually had the opposite effect.
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No love for Dancing Bear?
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I count Slim Goodbody and Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings as the cutoff point between myself and my younger brothers when it comes to Captain Kangaroo. I was leaving children’s shows behind, and they were just starting to watch on a regular basis.
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Never saw it so I’ll still vouch for Wonderama.
For me, the Captain is right up there, though.
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I also remember “Well, you know my name is Simon” really well, but I could have sworn I watched it on Pinwheel on Nickelodeon…
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Me too? Turns out it was on both…
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CK was always on the nose as far as his target audience.
Well intentioned, but DB always creeped me out. I was more in tune with Shari Lewis and her puppet Lambchops.
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